Patriots Are the Losers in the Trump v. Musk Fight
Kurt Schlichter
Thursday I took a nap just before noon, and when I woke up, I found that Donald Trump and Elon Musk were engaged in a giant cage match to the death. The two avatars of America First are throwing punches. Democrats are delighted. When bad people cheer, stop doing what’s making them cheer. This is awful, and we should all want it to stop.
And maybe by the time you read this, it will have stopped. Maybe they’ve gotten together and bro-hugged, and everything will be fine. After all, sometimes guys fight. It used to be out on the street with fists, and now it’s with tweets, but you get the point. We’ve got two mega-alphas in a small, enclosed public space, and they’re going to rumble.
Only one of them is going to be able to be dominant. I’m thinking it’s probably going to be the guy with his finger on the nuclear button. But nuking Elon is bad for America in general, and this is a bad fight for the Republican Party in particular. Elon Musk is a brilliant guy, a unique visionary, a living legend. He has revolutionized electric vehicles, employed hundreds of thousands of people, and made a lot of people a ton of money. Oh, I’m not done. He’s completely revolutionized— there’s that word again— space travel such that we’re back to traveling to space in American rockets instead of Russian ones. Then he revolutionized the Internet with Starlink and is about to help the blind see and the lame walk. He also saved free speech with Twitter, now X. His DOGE program is awesome even if it hasn’t quite got $1 trillion in savings yet. Oh, and his contribution to defeating the Democrats in 2024 was important. Was it decisive? I don’t know. No one knows. But we know it was better to have him on our side than not on our side— and will be in the future.
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